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Lucerne Museum of Transport – Planes, Trains & Automobiles

On a recent trip to Lucerne in Switzerland there was plenty of opportunity for surprise, becoming a ‘culture vulture’ visiting several museums in just a few days. I especially enjoyed the Bourbaki-Panorama which was the pre-cinema equivalent of 3D movies. It is a huge walk-round painting which depicts the retreat of the French at Les [...]

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It’s quite huge

Benedictine Kloster, Engelberg – A Monk’s Life

It is easy to become blasé visiting an attraction of the kind which has previously been visited on numerous occasions. Visiting the Kloster in Swiss Engelberg, having stayed in a few monasteries and  visited more already this charge could have justifiably been aimed at me. Less than five minutes after meeting our guide it was [...]

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